Captive spawning and embryonic development of marine ornamental purple firefish Nemateleotris decora (Randall &amp; Allen, 1973)

Madhu, K; Madhu, Rema

doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.12.027

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“…Till date, 90 species of marine ornamental fishes, 30 of these pomacentrids, have been bred in captivity but the attempts for mass scale production of many species have not yet been standardised. Among those, the early stages in the life of only 15% of pomacentrid species have been described to any level and the quality and extent of existing descriptions are also not uniform (Danilowicz and Brown, 1992;Murphy et al, 2007;Moorhead and Zeng, 2010;Setu et al, 2010;Madhu and Rema, 2014).…”

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Breeding, early development and larval rearing of cloudy damsel, Dascyllus carneus Fischer, 1885

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A B S T R A C TAs the demand for marine ornamental fish is ever increasing, the industry largely relies on collections from natural habitat due to insufficient breeding and seed production technologies. Fishes of the family Pomacentridae are popular in marine aquaria throughout the world. Among these, damsel fishes of the genus Dascyllus has high demand and are mostly collected from the wild. The present study forms the first-ever report on successful breeding and larval development of Cloudy Damsel (Dascyllus carneus Fischer, 1885). Though there are a few reports on breeding of other species of Dascyllus, there has been no report on the complete larval development of any of the species in this genus. This forms the first description of early larval development of a Dascyllus species. Using the copepod Parvocalanus crassirostris as first feed the larval rearing was done. Successful breeding and larval development were achieved from the wild-caught broodstock of D. carneus at Vizhinjam Research Centre of ICAR-CMFRI, India. Brood stock from the wild took 4 months to spawn, laid 6500-10,500 eggs per spawning and hatching rate ranged from 90.6 to 98.81%. Newly hatched larvae were the smallest among all the reported larvae of pomacentrid fishes and measured 1.95 ± 0.14 mm in total length. Yolk reserve was completely absorbed within 72 h of hatching. Preflexion stage is from 4 to 10 dph, flexion stage is from 11 to 12 dph and postflexion period is 13-15 dph. Larvae accepted only copepod naupliar stages as first feed and calanoid copepod P. crassirostris alone was fed until 25 dph. Larvae settled from planktonic stage in 22-23 days and all the larvae metamorphosed into juveniles by 50 dph. The egg development, larval development and larval pigmentation up to 50 dph has been described. The feeding protocols and feed size preference in relation to their age or mouth gape, the gut contents and mouth gape of the larvae caught from a feed trial with surplus copepods of all stages were analysed at regular intervals. Larvae preferred larger stages of copepods in later stages of their development. Finally larval feeding protocols were modified accordingly and better survival was observed. A final feeding regime has been developed and a strategy for the consistent hatchery production of this species was achieved. Different stages of copepod P. crassirostris were used till the settlement of planktonic stage of larvae and Artemia nauplii were used from 25 dph. The larvae were completely weaned to artificial diet from 50 dph.

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Breeding, early development and larval rearing of cloudy damsel, Dascyllus carneus Fischer, 1885

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“…Aquaculture has been proposed as a means to mitigate sustainability concerns over the multibillion‐dollar international aquarium trade that relies heavily on wild collection (Lecchini et al., ; Madhu & Madhu, ; Moorhead & Zeng, ; Olivotto et al., ; Rhyne et al., ; Schwerdtner Máñez, Dandava, & Ekau, ). In the United States, aquarium trade exports are primarily supplied by the state of Hawaii where the most heavily collected species is the yellow tang, Zebrasoma flavescens (Bennett) (Williams, Walsh, Claisse, Tissot, & Stamoulis, ).…”

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Effects of photoperiod, light intensity, turbidity and prey density on feed incidence and survival in first feeding yellow tang (Zebrasoma flavescens )(Bennett)

Pereira-Davison

Callan

2017

Aquac Res

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Zebrasoma flavescens (Bennett) aquaculture is limited by high mortality during first feeding. Photoperiod, light intensity, turbidity and prey density are culture parameters that have been shown to affect feed incidence and survival in some food fish species, offering a logical starting point to improve first feeding in Z. flavescens. This study aimed to determine the effect of photoperiod, light intensity, turbidity and prey density on feed incidence and survival in larval yellow tang age 3 DPH to 5 DPH (days post hatch). Larvae were reared in four photoperiods (24L:0D, 16L:8D,

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“…Despite successful breeding and rearing of some ornamental fish in display aquaria and laboratories (e.g., Leu et al . , ; Saravanan, Vijayanand, Vagelli, Murugan, Shanker, Rajagopal & Balasubramanian ; Madhu & Madhu ), they have been largely limited to small and experimental scales.…”

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“…; Ma, Qin, Hutchinson & Chen ; Shan & Lin ). Ornamental fish with demersal eggs or mouth/pouch brooding habits and relatively large larvae can also be successfully cultured using copepods and super small rotifers (SS‐type rotifers) (Ogawa & Brown ; Olivotto, Cardinali, Barbaresi, Maradonna & Carnevali ; Wabnitz, Taylor, Green & Razak ; Olivotto, Gaiot, Holste, Tulli, Cardinaletti, Piccinetti, Gioacchini & Carnevali ; Madhu & Madhu ). However, whether the sizes of prey suitable for ornamental fish species such as angelfish (Pomacanthidae) are suitable for other species is debatable, given the mouth gape limitations of the larvae, i.e.…”

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Towards sustainable exhibits - application of an inorganic fertilization method in coral reef fish larviculture in an aquarium

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Coral reef fish are collected from the wild and exhibited in aquaria worldwide. Some of the fish spawn in captivity; however, the eggs are usually neglected. In this study, we collected the eggs spawned naturally in the exhibit tanks, hatched and cultured them indoor in 2000-L fibreglass tanks (initial density = 18 000 egg tank À1 ). We applied an inorganic fertilization method commonly used in freshwater fish culture in raising these coral reef fish larvae. We maintained inorganic phosphorus concentration at 100 lg P L À1 and inorganic nitrogen at 700 lg N L À1 daily in the fertilized group (n = 4), while the control tanks (n = 4) were fed with rotifers (10 ind mL À1 ). Chlorophyll a at particle sizes of both 0.45-20 lm and >20 lm, as well as NH 3 -N, NO 3 -N, and PO 4 -P concentrations were significantly higher in the fertilized group than the control. Zooplankton in the size groups of 10-50 lm (mainly flagellates) and 50-100 lm (mainly ciliates) were abundant (about 10~60 ind mL À1 ) during 3-7 days in fertilized tanks. The average larval fish survival rate at 21 day after hatch in fertilized group was consistently higher than the control in two trials. The experiments demonstrated that the inorganic fertilization approach can be successfully adapted for coral reef fish culture in an aquarium to achieve sustainable exhibits.

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Captive spawning and embryonic development of marine ornamental purple firefish Nemateleotris decora (Randall & Allen, 1973)

Cited by 22 publications

References 41 publications

Breeding, early development and larval rearing of cloudy damsel, Dascyllus carneus Fischer, 1885

Breeding, early development and larval rearing of cloudy damsel, Dascyllus carneus Fischer, 1885

Effects of photoperiod, light intensity, turbidity and prey density on feed incidence and survival in first feeding yellow tang (Zebrasoma flavescens )(Bennett)

Towards sustainable exhibits - application of an inorganic fertilization method in coral reef fish larviculture in an aquarium

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